Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they were, the little 3-ft. craters would not have steep edges. There may be a layer of soft material an inch or so thick, but Dr. Eugene Shoemaker of the U.S. Geological Survey, a former believer in deep moon dust, said that he would not hesitate to step on the moon's surface. He was not sure, however, how much weight the moon's material would support...
...beginning to show championship strength in a whole list of events that it had never won before, had always more or less conceded to other nations. Philadelphia Insurance Man Ira Davis bounced 53 ft. 11 in. to give the U.S. its first victory in the triple jump (hop, step and jump). For six years, New Mexico Science Teacher George Young has charged over hurdles and splashed through water in hopeless pursuit of the Soviets; this time he caught them for a richly deserved win in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. The U.S. has never produced a better...
After dinner, Malraux gave a lofty address en art to the guests, who included James Baldwin, James Johnson Sweeney, Poet Saint-John Perse, Baron Alain de Rothschild, Mmes. Kandinsky and Léger, Ludmilla Tcherina, Yves Montand and Ella Fitzgerald. He called the museum "an important step in the history of the spirit" and concluded: "It was on a night like this that we heard the last blow of the hammer that completed the Parthenon. It was on a night like this that sounded the last blow of the hammer to Michelangelo's St. Peter's." -Yves Montand...
...great outdoors does things to people. Stuffy board chairmen, foggy professors, bleary barflies are all likely to step out of character under a wide and starry sky. Musicians, too. On the podium of Boston's austere Symphony Hall, Conductor Erich Leinsdorf, for instance, is as musically adventurous as a metronome. But amid the shadowed lawns and towering pinewoods of Tanglewood at Lenox, Mass., where the Berkshire Music Festival has been held for 27 summers, Leinsdorf the precisionist gives way to a gay experimenter...
...families now own two cars-and the latest trend is to a third. 'There is only so much steak one can eat without getting indigestion," says Boston Banker Richard Chapman. "So it seems only logical that the three-car family and the second television is merely the next step...